Support for photographic albums.



PATENT'ED QCT. 4, 1904.

G. S'GHWAB. SUPPORT FOR PHOTOGRAPHIG ALBUMS".

EPPLIUATIIOF FILED JANLZBB. 1904.,

NO MODEL.

I INVENTOR 5 6. 554: 7/6 fifi am 5 f/C A WITNESSES ATTOR N EY UNITED STATES Patented October 4, 1904.

GUSTAVE SCHWAB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORT FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,671, dated October 4, 1904. I Application filed January 28, 1904. Serial No. 191,052. (No model.)

To a. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvE SoHwAB, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements ,in Supports for Photographic Albums, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for supporting an album at an angle or inclination for convenient examination of the contents and so that strain upon the binding is avoided.

The invention relates to what may be termed a "support for photographic albums; and it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, and wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of an album-support constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 is a front view with the album opened and the body of the album resting upon thelateral extension of the support.

Referring to the drawings by reference characters, the album support consists of a base a, adapted to be placed upon or secured to a supporting member 5, which projects in a lateral direction from one side of the base a, so as to receive the body of the album when the latter is opened, as shown in Fig. 3. Upon the base a are mounted four standards, (designated by the reference characters a, a a

and at) The standards are arranged so as to form a compartment in which can be placed a music-box or other object. The standard a is termed the front standard and has its top edge beveled, and the standard a is termed the rear standard and also has its top edge beveled; but said standard a is of much greater height than the standard a. The standards a and a are termed the side standards, and theyhave their top edges inclined so that the and the rear portion of the side standards a to gill be of the same height as the rear standard nor as set forth a photographic album can be mounted thereon as well as secured thereto, and said album will extend at an angle or be inclined for convenient examination or inspection of the contents or pictures. The album is permanently attached to the top of the standards, the lower or one of the covers 0 of the album being shown fixed to the top of the standards. The cover 0' swings on the hinge or binding 0 While the cover 0 is secured to the standards, the hinge 0 is of course sufficiently clear of the support to allow of readily opening or closing the album. The height of the standards is gaged or regulated by the thickness of the album, so as to occupy the desired distance from the member 6, so that when the album is open in the manner as shown in Fig. 3it will readily rest upon said member 7).

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination, a stationary base provided with a laterally-projecting integral albumsupportingextension, front, rear and side vertically-extending standards rigidly connected to the base and formingin connection with the base a receptacle, said rear standard of greater height than the front standard and said front and rear standards having the top edge thereof beveled, said side standards having the top edge thereof inclined downwardly from the rear to the front and at the rear of the same height as the rear standards and atthe front of the same height as the front standards, and an album supported by said receptacle and having one cover thereof fixedly secured to the upper edges of the standards for permanently closing the top of said receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAVE' SCHWAB.

Witnesses:

CHAs. E. POENSGEN, GEORGE HULSBERG.

a By constructing the standards in the man- 

